Sentences with phrase «program for city residents»

Additionally, we have a low - cost spay - neuter program for city residents to have their owned cats and dogs sterilized.

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Robinson, a New York City resident, believed that the best way to scale would be for her to fly to African countries to get the program off the ground.

Moreover, programs designed to prevent moving may reduce beneficial mobility — leading residents to favor staying in place even when a move might increase their wellbeing or might be a better outcome for affordability in the city overall (if those moves then pave the way for higher - density development or better use / allocation of the existing stock).

For information on non-emergency city services and programs, Toronto residents, businesses and visitors can visit toronto.ca.

The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

She says the residents «think somebody owes them something,» and complains that they spend money on expensive hairstyles, makeup and leather coats but won't pay a token fee to send their children to a weeklong summer camp program her church runs for the benefit of inner - city youngsters.

The cost of this program is $ 2 for city residents and $ 7 for nonresidents, and preregistration is required.

The residency programs are located in a small southern university city and provide primary care for residents of the city and the surrounding rural area.

Under the proposal, suggested by new Parks General Supt. Forrest Claypool, non-residents would pay twice what city residents pay for some Chicago Park District programs beginning Sept. 1.

On the other side: De Blasio and his allies, who had already planned to be in Albany Tuesday to rally for his ever - more - out - of - reach plan to let the city tax wealthy residents to expand pre-K and after school programs in the five boroughs.

But Klein has doubled down on his support for de Blasio's plan to tax wealthy New York City residents to fund universal pre-K and after school programs.

This will include working to revitalize the Hunts Point Terminal Produce Market in the Bronx, which supplies a large portion of the produce for New York City's and the region's food consumption, and creating a «Share NY Food» Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program that develops partnerships with farmers and residents to expand access and resources and make fresh food available to consumers in urban areas.

Tennessee and Oregon have enacted programs to cover residents» tuition costs at community colleges and some cities have tuition - free programs for eligible students headed to certain colleges.

The pilot public financing program in the state comptroller's race, modeled on the New York City campaign finance system, provides a six - to - one match for contributions between $ 10 and $ 175 from New York residents.

If so, the CFB could count those against the $ 182,000 spending cap for the Democratic primary, should Abbate participate in the city's public matching funds program, a program which effectively lets candidates multiply sevenfold every donation under $ 175 they receive from a resident of the five boroughs.

Hawkins recently testified in support of a state single payer program that would make health care a right for all residents while eliminating the county and New York City contribution to Medicaid, a major driver of high property taxes.

As Mr. de Blasio did in Albany, Mr. Fuleihan today criticized the state budget for presenting cuts to homelessness programs, even as the number of New York City residents in shelters continues to rise.

A Quinnipiac poll released on Wednesday showed a preference among New York City residents for Cuomo's plan, though the wording didn't include de Blasio's argument that his plan would provide a higher quality, more comprehesive expansion of the program.

The resolution outlines $ 2.7 billion in funding over five years for a universal pre-k and after - school programs at levels requested by New York City's mayor Bill de Blasio, but does not include the mayor's proposed tax on high - income city resideCity's mayor Bill de Blasio, but does not include the mayor's proposed tax on high - income city residecity residents.

The Leadership Council as follows: Adrienne Adams (Queens Community Board 12); Rhonda Binda (Jamaica Center BID); Brian Browne (St. John's University); Ricardi Calixte (Queens Economic Development Corporation); Tonya Cantlo - Cockfield (Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning); Clive Dawkins (Property Owner); Kevin J. Forrestal (Queens Community Board 8); Deepmalya Gosh (The Child Center of New York); Glenn Greenidge (Sutphin Boulevard Business Improvement District); Michael Griffith (New York City Department of Transportation) Tyrel Hankerson (Resident); Ian Harris (Community Board 12); Howard Hecht (Community Member); Cathy Hung (Jamaica Center for Arts ad Learning / Jamaica Performing Arts Center); Derek Irby (165th Street Mall Improvement Association); Bilal Karriem (Queens Community Board 12); Malikka Karteron (Resident); Philippa Karteron (Resident); Michele Keller (Queens Community Board 12); Tameka Pierre - Louis (Civic Leader); Justin Rogers (Greater Jamaica Development Corporation); Pierina Ana Sanchez (Regional Plan Association); Aaron Schwartz (Commercial Property Owner); Earl Simons (York College); Nakita Vanstory (LaGuardia Community College - Justice Community Program); Bernard Warren (Jamaica YMCA); Richard Werber (King Manor Museum); Jonathan White (Community Member); Montgomery Wilkinson (Resident); Nadezhda Williams (Community Based Organization) and Tajuana Hamm (Designee for NYS Senator James Sanders, Jr.).

u A restructuring of the state STAR tax credit program that will effectively boost New York City's resident income tax by another 6 percent for high - income households.

I am continuing to work hard on important issues facing Lower Manhattan including ensuring that our Downtown Little League and Soccer League get the field time they need at the B.P.C. ball fields, coming up with an appropriate redevelopment plan for the South Street Seaport, providing adequate funding to NYCHA residents and community programs serving youth and seniors, and maintaining affordable housing in Battery Park City and throughout the district.

Thousands of New York City residents who are H.I.V. - positive will become eligible for public assistance for housing, transportation and food under a significant expansion of a state program that some activists had feared was being delayed.

Even though the city and state (via the MTA) have traditionally shared the cost of free student MetroCards, the current push for a similar program with half - price cards for low - income NYC residents has focused on the mayor, not the governor.

De Blasio, for his part, touted his various achievements at the city level, including his new $ 500 million life sciences initiative, his universal prekindergarten initiative, new programs the city has created to help young people get jobs in the film and TV industry, the city's rent freeze program and the fact that the city now gives residents who are being harassed by their landlords a lawyer for free if they can fight the case.

«We are committed to working with stakeholders to fashion a program that will produce the affordable housing throughout New York City that is so desperately needed, ensures construction workers are treated fairly and creates job opportunities for City residents.»

The state's program for the comptroller race is modeled after New York City's public program under which each dollar from a city resident gives up to $ 175 can be matched by $ 6 in public fuCity's public program under which each dollar from a city resident gives up to $ 175 can be matched by $ 6 in public fucity resident gives up to $ 175 can be matched by $ 6 in public funds.

The program, started under former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, has been plagued with delays, suffered «flawed or incomplete» work paid for by the city and was criticized by residents and de Blasio himself.

New York City Department of Social Services Commissioner Steven Banks discusses a program for homeless residents

The challenge is to live for one week with all spending for food and meals limited to the average benefit amount for city residents enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

The volunteer - driven program provides an extraordinary opportunity for all our residents to have a voice in our city's budget process.

The matching funds program is meant to encourage New Yorkers to run for office or help candidates rely on donations from city residents as opposed to special interests with large pockets.

The leaders of the community proposal and rally, reverends from Brooklyn, achieved significant attention for their plan and support from elected officials, in part because their critique of de Blasio's housing program touched the core tension of what some see as a solid, fairly moderate approach, but others call too timid to address the affordability crisis facing the city and its residents and, in some cases, a catalyst of detrimental gentrification.

Malliotakis is trying to qualify for the City's matching funds program, in which contributions of up to $ 175 from City residents are matched 6 - 1.

Senate co-majority leader Jeff Klein, who supports de Blasio's plan to pay for pre-kindergarten in New York City through a tax increase on residents earning more than $ 500,000, said the Legislature needs to consider how to find resources to deliver pre-K programs beyond the five boroughs.

Today, De Blasio, who proposed raising the income tax of city residents making at least $ 500,000 to pay for pre-K and other school programs, said that Cuomo wasn't ruling it out at all.

NEW YORK, NY (05/11/2012)(readMedia)-- Early this afternoon, a team of welfare recipients, unemployed New Yorkers looking for work, public housing residents, and people living with HIV / AIDS — members of the grassroots organizing groups Community Voices Heard (CVH) and Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL - NY)-- led other New York residents in a series of actions in Lower Manhattan to highlight the inequality prevalent in our City today, and lift up the need to restore critical programs currently proposed to be cut in Mayor Bloomberg's Fiscal Year 2013 budget.

New York City mayor Bill de Blasio campaigned on the promise of raising taxes on the city's wealthiest residents to fund universal pre-K and after - school programs for middle schoolers, and de Blasio said earlier Tuesday that he intends to continue pushing for that tax, calling it a «mission» from votCity mayor Bill de Blasio campaigned on the promise of raising taxes on the city's wealthiest residents to fund universal pre-K and after - school programs for middle schoolers, and de Blasio said earlier Tuesday that he intends to continue pushing for that tax, calling it a «mission» from votcity's wealthiest residents to fund universal pre-K and after - school programs for middle schoolers, and de Blasio said earlier Tuesday that he intends to continue pushing for that tax, calling it a «mission» from voters.

She cites her collaboration with CenterState CEO and other organizations to set up training programs and target jobs for unemployed and disadvantaged city residents at the renovated Hotel Syracuse, among other locations.

A mortgage refinancing program is also included in the plan and would have great benefits for city residents, Liu's report said.

But she said after in the wake of her decision to support City Councilwoman Melissa Mark - Viverito last year for speaker — while the Queens Democrats backed Daniel Garodnick — Assemblyman Francisco Moya and the Queens Democrats opted instead to back Yanna Henriquez, a Corona resident and program director for the Dominico - American Society of Queens, for her seat.

The mayor and the speaker, Melissa Mark - Viverito, will be trying to stiffen lawmakers» resolve in a now - explicit argument with Governor Andrew Cuomo over the merits of de Blasio's plan to raise the income tax rate on the wealthiest city residents to pay for universal pre-kindergarten and after - school programs for middle schools.

De Blasio also took the opportunity to encourage people to sign up for IDNYC, a municipal ID program that is available to all city residents including undocumented immigrants, and told the crowd to learn more about Get Covered NYC, an effort to enroll more New Yorkers in Obamacare.

QUEENS, NY — With the first cold snap of the season sending shivers throughout the city, Borough President Melinda Katz announced that residents in need of financial assistance to help heat their homes this winter are encouraged to come to her office at Queens Borough Hall to apply for the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP).

But there is one advantage to raising cash at home: The city has one of the most generous public matching programs in the country, with $ 6 of free public money granted for every $ 1 a candidate raises from New York City residents, up to maximum of $ 1,050 in matching grants per docity has one of the most generous public matching programs in the country, with $ 6 of free public money granted for every $ 1 a candidate raises from New York City residents, up to maximum of $ 1,050 in matching grants per doCity residents, up to maximum of $ 1,050 in matching grants per donor.

Now, after seeing the volume of participants and the importance that the IDNYC Program has been in the City of New York, I believe it is time for New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo to also do something of this magnitude for all residents of New York State.

It is important for you to know that after becoming the Mayor of New York City, the Honorable Bill de Blasio implemented the IDNYC Program, granting government - issued identification cards to all City residents over 14 years old, no matter what their immigration status is — anyone can apply for it.

«This gives a carte blanche to any resident to take their kids to private schools,» Murillo said, «and it could devastate programs that are providing innovative programs for inner city schools and high - poverty schools.»

There's also the Community to Teacher Program, a rigorous nine - month course for city residents with college degrees who want to switch careers to work in classrooms.

Together, the Kansas City Teacher Residency and Park University have created a unique program specifically for residents.